Template:W/doc

w is a handly little shortcut that equates the following markup: article name -->

Usage
w incorporates one kind of pipe trick. As long as the wikipedia article is not disambiguated, then it will automatically get rid of the prepending "wikipedia:". Hence,
 * results in.

However, if the wikipedia title is disambiguated, you must type a little more. For instance,
 * renders
 * but
 * renders

Note for editors from other wikis
Other wikis use something similar to this template. Memory Alpha, for instance uses a template with exactly the same name. However, our w is a bit different to memoryalpha:template:w, in that it defaults to the name of the page if you don't add your own variable name. In essence, Memory Alpha use w to do not only what this one does, but also what wikipediainfo does. The default value of the second variable in this template is the value of first variable — not the name of the page on which you're working. That's why : renders.

For those interested in technical details, when you type, our template is actually delivering the following code:.

In other iterations of this template around Wikia, it might instead be delivering this code:, which is sometimes a very different thing.